Senior Data Strategist - Clearance Required
About The Position
LMI is seeking a Data Strategist to help an Army customer strengthen data governance and turn data and AI strategy into working capabilities. The role advises senior Army leaders, establishes enterprise priorities, and guides implementation across a complex portfolio of programs and systems. Working with program offices, data owners, architects, and engineers, the Data Strategist helps improve data quality, share information securely, and build reusable data products. Success requires technical judgment, stakeholder alignment, and a record of carrying enterprise initiatives through implementation and adoption. LMI is a digital solutions provider focused on accelerating government impact through innovation and speed. It invests in technology and prototypes, and provides commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies. LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors and is headquartered in Tysons, Virginia.
Requirements
- Extensive experience leading data strategy, governance, or modernization initiatives for large Department of Defense organizations, with responsibility for enterprise outcomes.
- Demonstrated success translating strategy into implemented data capabilities and adopted governance practices across multiple programs or organizational units.
- Experience implementing Data Mesh or a comparable federated data-product model, including domain ownership, shared standards, and lifecycle management.
- Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture, metadata, lineage, data quality, interoperability, and secure access, with the technical judgment to guide architects and engineers.
- Experience assessing AI opportunities and the data, evaluation, risk-management, and governance practices needed to support their use.
- Experience advising senior government leaders, facilitating decisions among stakeholders with competing priorities, and leading organizational change.
- Active Secret security clearance.
- Ability to work onsite five days per week at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting Army acquisition organizations, program offices, or enterprise modernization efforts.
- Familiarity with Army data stewardship, architecture, and AI adoption guidance and its practical application.
- Experience with Palantir Foundry, enterprise data catalogs, or data governance platforms.
- Experience applying data capabilities to acquisition, readiness, logistics, or other defense mission and business processes.
Responsibilities
- Assess organizational data capabilities and mission needs; develop data and AI strategy roadmaps that prioritize investments, sequence delivery, and define measurable outcomes.
- Develop governance frameworks for government review, covering data ownership, stewardship, authoritative sources, standards, and decision processes, and help teams apply approved policies and practices.
- Lead federated data management planning and guide implementation with program and technical teams, including domain ownership, data-product lifecycle practices, self-service capabilities, and federated governance.
- Guide improvements to data catalogs, metadata, lineage, quality, interoperability, and access controls so information can be discovered, understood, and used securely across programs.
- Prioritize AI use cases based on mission value, data readiness, feasibility, and risk, and work with government leaders and technical teams to define evaluation criteria and lifecycle controls.
- Coordinate data initiatives across program offices, functional organizations, engineering teams, and cybersecurity stakeholders; resolve dependencies and track delivery and adoption against the roadmap.
- Help data owners and stewards adopt common practices through workshops, practical guidance, and data literacy efforts; measure progress in data quality, reuse, and organizational adoption.
- Prepare decision papers and executive briefings explaining options, tradeoffs, risks, and recommended actions; facilitate leadership discussions and help teams implement government-approved decisions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
